Preserved Unconscious Processing in Schizophrenia: The Case of Motivation.

ABSTRACT:

Background and hypothesis

Motivation deficit is a hallmark of schizophrenia that has a strong impact on their daily life. An alteration of reward processing has been repeatedly highlighted in schizophrenia, but to what extent it involves a deficient amplification of reward representation through conscious processing remains unclear. Indeed, patients with schizophrenia exhibit a disruption of conscious processing, whereas unconscious processing appears to be largely preserved.

Study design

To further explore the nature of motivational deficit in schizophrenia and the implication of consciousness disruption in this symptom, we used a masking paradigm testing motivation both under conscious and unconscious conditions in patients with schizophrenia (n = 31) and healthy controls

SUBMITTER: Berkovitch L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9434445 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature